NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	453	373	361
Rank change year-on-year	-80	-12	+26
Contract jobs citing NFS	16	6	12
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.079%	0.044%	0.077%
As % of the System Software category	0.84%	0.38%	0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	2	2
10^th Percentile	£313	-	£478
25^th Percentile	£413	£625	£481
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£465	£650	£500
Median % change year-on-year	-28.46%	+29.94%	-14.85%
75^th Percentile	£550	£675	£519
90^th Percentile	-	-	£523
England median daily rate	£465	£625	£500
% change year-on-year	-25.60%	+24.94%	-13.00%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing system software skills in London.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	1,905	1,573	1,625
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.40%	11.42%	10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,316	986	1,076
10^th Percentile	£263	£300	£263
25^th Percentile	£413	£419	£409
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£526
Median % change year-on-year	-	-0.24%	-2.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£650
90^th Percentile	£725	£717	£750
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£515
% change year-on-year	-	-2.91%	+3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	31	13
10^th Percentile	£18.90	£21.00	£20.20
25^th Percentile	£24.05	£22.50	£23.59
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£24.00	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	+45.83%	+0.84%	-52.34%
75^th Percentile	£43.75	£28.00	£62.50
90^th Percentile	£55.00	£35.75	£108.10
England median hourly rate	£63.14	£30.00	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+110.45%	-40.00%	+14.29%

NFS Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

NFS Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in London over the 6 months to 5 November 2026.

NFS Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

NFS Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 5 November 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-30	2	£325	-50.00%
NFS England

NFS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing NFS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing NFS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	VMware	62.5%	10
2	Python	56.3%	9
2	VMware Infrastructure	56.3%	9
4	Ansible	50.0%	8
4	Linux	50.0%	8
6	DHCP	43.8%	7
6	Disaster Recovery	43.8%	7
6	DNS	43.8%	7
6	LDAP	43.8%	7
6	NAS	43.8%	7
6	SAN	43.8%	7
6	Windows	43.8%	7
13	Unix	37.5%	6
14	Active Directory	31.3%	5
14	AWS	31.3%	5
14	Azure	31.3%	5
14	Capacity Planning	31.3%	5
14	Cybersecurity	31.3%	5
14	Kerberos	31.3%	5
14	NetApp	31.3%	5
14	Terraform	31.3%	5
22	Bash	25.0%	4
22	CA Single Sign-On	25.0%	4
22	Cohesity	25.0%	4
22	Db2	25.0%	4
22	Firewall	25.0%	4
22	Greenplum	25.0%	4
22	High Availability	25.0%	4
22	IaaS	25.0%	4
22	Impact Analysis	25.0%	4

NFS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	VMware Infrastructure	56.3%	9
2	Active Directory	31.3%	5
3	KVM	25.0%	4
4	Firmware	18.8%	3
4	Virtual Machines	18.8%	3
6	Ceph	12.5%	2
6	QEMU	12.5%	2
6	Samba	12.5%	2
6	Veritas Cluster Server	12.5%	2
6	VirtualBox	12.5%	2
11	Hyper-V	6.3%	1
11	VMware ESXi	6.3%	1
11	VMware NSX	6.3%	1
11	vSphere	6.3%	1